Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |
| 2 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 3 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 4 | This misconception about the requirements of effective verbal communication can have important consequences in that young children may not use their linguistic skills as effectively as they might either as speakers or as listeners . |
| 5 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 6 | The initial deleterious effects of cost accounting struck the press as badly as they upset the railways , education , local Soviet administration , and trade . |
| 7 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 8 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 9 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 10 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 11 | Arrived at the station , the daily travellers , dressed to a man in dark suits , white , stiff-collared shirts , and bowler or trilby hats , with their tightly furled umbrellas held as elegantly as they were able , would quickly assemble in their respective and habitual positions along the platform , for they knew exactly where ‘ their ’ compartment would come to rest . |
| 12 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 13 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 14 | He highlighted a classic phrase by Peter Jennings , ABC 's anchor-man wrinkle-brow : ‘ Using it even once can make a person crave cocaine for as long as they ( sic ) live . ’ |
| 15 | That same prize will elude the British for as long as they yearn for it publicly . |
| 16 | Managers have two good motives to avoid a deal with creditors for as long as they can : they keep their jobs longer , and they work for shareholders , who do not want a deal either . |
| 17 | Cynics are betting that the romance is a huge publicity stunt to help sell the firm : ‘ The relationship will last as long as they can use each other , ’ says one . |
| 18 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 19 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 20 | Maybe just having the space to say all the things they want to say , including the difficult and confusing things , as often and for as long as they want to say them , is what they seek help and support with . |
| 21 | It is perhaps surprising , with Healings ' huge mill in nearby Tewkesbury , that a few mills such as Northway and particularly Aston , managed to function for as long as they did . |
| 22 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 23 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 24 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 25 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 26 | While the SAAF will be a ‘ Super Dakota ’ operator for a long time to come , DASA air to maintain a former SAA and SAAF Dak in ‘ classic ’ format for as long as they can . |
| 27 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 28 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 29 | A more liberal choice proposed by the Shop Hours Reform Council — allowing large shops to open for up to six hours on a Sunday , and small ones for as long as they wanted — would encourage almost half of all shops to do so . |
| 30 | Both companies are licensed to use this source code in their products for as long as they choose . |